Polk County

Love, I just hit him because I took him to a trail.

They usually have a land out there in Polk County at Rockmark right off Thornton Road for the trail rides out here because it's close to Atlanta, but it's in the woods, though, so it makes sense.

Shout out to 101 Backwood.

And I took, before I even got into Southern Soul, I took him out there, man, because y'all need to see this, bro.

Some students weren't receiving the foundational reading instruction they needed.

That work brought together Dr. Jennifer Pendergrass-Benefield, Floyd County's coordinator of ESOL, Title III, and literacy legislation, John Parker, the district's assistant superintendent and chief academic officer, and Dr. Tabitha Teers, an experienced literacy educator who now serves as a literacy coach in neighboring Polk County.

They were later joined by Dr. David Chiesa, a clinical associate professor at the University of Georgia, specializing in TESOL, language assessment, and teacher education.

Together, they've been exploring how schools can better connect English language development with foundational reading instruction.

Your district is, is far more rural than most listeners here on the app and media empire.

Um, How do you see, what's been your experience on how rural voters are seeing today's issues differently, if at all? Now, you do have some suburbs, because you do have parts of Cobb, and you have all of Paulding County, which is now very suburbanized, but do you see a distinct difference in how your voters in Polk County are looking at things differently than some of your guys in Cobb?

To be honest, I really don't.

As I travel around, there may be different issues that some communities are focused on more than others.

Moving forward.

Polk County, Georgia.

All right.

Lawyers filed a federal complaint demanding $1 million-

Um, [clears throat] a lawsuit against Officer Trenton Ryan Garner, who they claim shot and killed the donkey on August 30.

This has gotta be the same one.

Uh, attorney Chris McCormick also sent a one million legal demand to the Cedartown Police Department and the Polk County Board of Commissioners.

Officials have 30 days to respond before the demand expires.

Cedartown, Georgia, the hub of the world.

Polk County, where you can still live affordably for the most part.

Folks, I just want to say thanks for the outpouring of love from last week's episode.

We relaunched this podcast last week.

I tried to tow it.

What the fuck are y'all, a bunch of idiot cops in Georgia around this area? I think it was Polk County, Georgia or something.

Just a bunch of stupid ass cops that don't know shit about animals.

Now look, they're at another fence.

where at in Atlanta was this? Yeah, I don't know where

he's at.

No, this is in Polk County, Georgia.

I ain't worried about the horse.

A shooting happened in August on a farm in Cedartown.

It's in Polk County.

Channel 2's Baron Peterson, live for us right now.

Okay, so anyway, it goes on and shows

A fellow officer and the team of the bloodhounds from the charging animal.

The Sunday shooting in Polk County, Georgia, made national headlines after the anguished owner of the small donkey posted on Facebook vowing to pursue legal action for the killing.

The chief of the Cedartown Police Department announced that the officer involved has been put on leave and an investigation into the shooting has been handed off to the Georgia Department of Agricultural Law.

Enforcement Division.

Harlison continues, k-19 retreated the k-9 handler thomason removed his taser 7 from its holster and began to arch it to attempt to deter the donkey from attacking us this in fact did not deter the donkey so i removed my department issue clock 17 from its holster and pointed it at the donkey.

Then I fired a single round, striking the donkey, at which point the donkey turned away from the K-9 handler Thomason, retreating up the hill before falling over.

Then we informed Polk County 911 that I had to use my firearm to dispatch the donkey and prevent injury to K-9 handler Thomason and Harleston County K-9 team.

Garner then spoke with the donkey's owner, Hannah Israel, who told him that it had been bottle-fed since infancy, would never act aggressive towards anyone, nor would it try to bite anyone.